The Alchemist Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Few days back, my Dell laptop’s HDD stopped working, there’s no support in Chennai,India,since I got it from US. I have quite some data in it without a backup.. My priority is to revive the HDD with the data or at least the data... Any suggestions, on what is the best course of action that I must adopt.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALPHA17 Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Few days back, my Dell laptop’s HDD stopped working, there’s no support in Chennai,India,since I got it from US. I have quite some data in it without a backup.. My priority is to revive the HDD with the data or at least the data... Any suggestions, on what is the best course of action that I must adopt.. Recovering data depends on whether the hard-drive platter is damaged OR not. If there is physical damage on the platter then forget recovering your data in a usable form, it is dead and gone; you might get a few scraps from the undamaged region but it might not e the complete data. If the failure is a more mundane controller issue you might be able to recover everything but it shall cost you all the same. Contact some local data recovery establishments OR search for them in Just-dial / Google. Please note depending on the nature of the failure and the amount of data to e recovered (how much and where it is placed) the entire exercise can be very, very expensive. Hope this helps, Cheerio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinayakb Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 If you can connect the HDD to your desktop, then try some data recovery tools that are available online. I used to use some Norton's data recovery tool - many years ago. Maybe there is something for the newer laptop HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender487 Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 dude if ur laptop stopped working it means either ur one of ur lt ram damaged or ur lt is not getting appro power from thecharger hdd crashes only when u accidentally transfer virus without an anti virus installed or it hangs ,many times u press power button for hard reset hdd never crashes dat easily bro open ur lt replace the both RAMs with a working laptop ram which is compatible to urs mobo then buy hope this ll help u out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr1pt1k Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Just take out the hard drive. See some youtube videos on how to remove it for your particular model. Your hard drive might be fine. Put it in a casing and plug to your desktop via usb....and take your backup.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALPHA17 Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Before trying any of the above, take a Ubuntu live disc and try to boot with that, check your hard-drives S.M.A.R.T. status. That should explain the predicament much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Alchemist Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Let me try using Ubuntu to check the HDD status and then try to remove it... thanks all for the useful suggestions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renato Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 beats by dreIts like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is great blog. A great read. I will certainly be back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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